A long, long way into the distance   But not so far from where you’d grown   Stood a mountain of complications   The likes of which I’d never known      Sound familiar?      You invited me indoors   For coffee and a slice of lemon   I rambled up the stairwell   Like a lanky Armageddon      Does this sound familiar?      You threw yourself upon me   Seemingly when I least expected   Still it’s better to be startled   Than stone-faced, sombre and dejected      Does this sound familiar? Does this sound Familiar?      I’m the messiah for the maudlin   The prince of the thieves    And you could cut my legs from under me   If I’d just get off my knees      The valerian kicked in   And my anatomy went limp   And I wondered where along the timeline   I became such a god awful wimp      Does this sound familiar?      I tossed and I turned and I turned and I tossed   And then I turned some more   My sheets got caught amid the whirlwind    And I forgot what I’d been lying there for      Does this sound familiar?      I lit a lamp in light    Of all that I had sought to ruminate   But in the depths of my mind   A fear began to illuminate      Does this sound familiar? Does this sound familiar?      I’m the messiah for the maudlin   The prince of the thieves    And you could cut my legs from under me   If I’d just get off my knees      Now my body feels isolated   And my words are just a shield   And I’m judging every passer-by   Like a contemporary Holden Caulfield   How do you fight those inhibitions    that keep you surly and aware?   Just borrow some courage from the Dutch   And brother, you won’t even care      I’m the messiah for the maudlin   The prince of the thieves    And you could cut my legs from under me   If I’d just get off my knees